Joanna Lumley Quotes
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.
Quotes to Explore
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I like being unconventional.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I'm glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players' footsteps.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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My journey has practically been a typical Hindi film script. I was a boy from a small town who wanted to make a future in dancing. Everyone though that I won't be able to do anything.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.
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I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.
